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Because someday we may have the technology to not destroy them in the process and may even be able to do more things to extract more knowledge from them. There are many fossils and sites that today would yield more information to us had they been left alone years ago. Patience is a good thing.

Dash camera for those roadside encounters

The internet disrupted so many of the common ways knowledge was acquired, analyzed and distributed, we all know. Although I think the consensus on BF is one of the more difficult informational nuts to crack, it will be eventually, thanks largely to the miraculous way the information can be shared. It is easy to become impatient, but it helps to look how far the topic has been advanced in just the last 20....a blink of the eye in the pre-internet world. Despite the moans and groans about how there has been no substantial progress since the PGF was published, that really is not true. Just the access to information on this topic alone is light-years from one guy with a film print, trooping around the country with a BF lecture presented to mere dozens (on a good night) of attendees. Helps to keep that perspective.

Not so much admitting it Hunster as just acknowledging how people think, and we all can probably agree there is something like this working against BF discoveries. I don't think it rises to the level of a conscious conspiracy to suppress evidence, although it certainly can look like one. We are all told that scientists leave their biases at the lab door, but I think anyone who follows scientific news can easily doubt that as true.

I tried horse hair/horse blanket as an olfactory signaling test and drove the black bears crazy. I bought horse hair and a used horse blanket off of ebay and craigslist. The items get washed but there was some scent remaining. I bundled up horse hair and horse blanket fibers with loops of string for hanging. Placed the collection in a plastic bag lined coffee can and filled with water. Into the freezer. I can't remember how high off of the ground that I suspended it. A bear could not stand on it's hind legs and get it. Time release essence of horse. The drip rate was greater during the day, slowed down at night. The black bears went nuts. This was a heavy item to pack uphill to a camera site. I did this one time.

How are you going to mark/layout an event? Track/track way measurements? Plastic tent stakes !!!! About a buck apiece, Available in several colors. The top is sliced by a saw. A plastic mallet ( tent stake mallet ) is used to drive them in if you can't push them with your hand. Old CD's with contact paper for labels/messages works. Alphabetically or numerically lay out your find. For example, numbers; odd for left feet, even for right. Location A, location B. Messages for associates. Color code importance or beginning/end. Watch your P's and Q's. The sawing is ugly because the plastic melts. The stakes will accept a flexible tape if you need an anchor point. See the last images. When the tape is pulled through the stake, subtract the amount that is buried. The below image is 10 centimeters to be subtracted. The same amount on the standard side is about 4". Don't use these stakes if you are looking for Dracula at midnight.